International best practices in developing strategies and promoting energy diplomacy in the oil and gas sector were the focus of an OSCE-hosted online seminar on 21-22 October 2021. Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Energy, the state concerns Turkmengaz and Turkmenneft, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, higher educational institutions and other relevant bodies of Turkmenistan took part in the seminar, the "GA" correspondent was told at the OSCE Center in A...

An organized rice harvesting goes on at high rates in the north of Turkmenistan. 120 state-of-the-art high capacity combines and about hundred units of vehicles for grain transportation were used for an important campaign. This year in Dashoguz velayat the rice bays occupied as usually eight thousand one hundred hectares, from which the agricultural workers are planning to gather thirty-five thousand ton of the “pearl” grain. A heavy crop of the quality varieties «Müňbaşy», «Nöküs-2», «Аlenga» a...

Preliminary forecast of weather for the final week of October in Turkmenistan promises rains. The apparent cooling down will be beginning from midweek. A fall of heavy precipitation will be in the mountain areas of Kopetdag, where the fall of snow does not exclude.   The weather is sunny in Ashgabat +18...+20°, air temperature may decrease to +13…+15° at day time, and +4…+6° at night time. With rain at times. It will be cooling down within a week in Ahal velayat as well, where there is pro...

Where is the «House of Devas», the top of the mountains of the Kopetdag ridge of Uchkui («Three Wells») and the Khur-Khuri waterfall located? Residents of the village of Nohur in the Akhal velayat can easily answer these questions. This picturesque corner of nature, included in the list of the 100 most romantic places in the world, is located just a few hours' drive from Ashgabat. However, the journey to Nohur begins long before arriving at the place. Already on the way, experienced touris...

As already reported, on October 24, 2021, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev arrived to Turkmenistan on a state visit. On the first day of the visit the President of Kazakhstan visited Akhal-Teke horse complex of the President of Turkmenistan. Here the Heads of states watched a brood of elite Akhal-Teke horses. Then Presidents Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev watched the performances of the group of national equestrian games «Galkynysh». On...

43 transactions were registered at the Sate Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. Businessmen from Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, the Republic of Turkey, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Malta, Panama among others purchased aviation kerosene, base oil, construction oil bitumen, polypropylene produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries. Business circles from Singapore purchased technical sulfur. Moreover, businessmen from the Russian Federation, T...

The Turkmen language is one of the richest in the family of Turkic languages. This is evidenced by many written monuments, which are excellent examples of folk art. The epics "Gorogly" and "Gorkut ata" are among the masterpieces of Turkmen literature, which are invaluable wealth not only of the Turkmen, but also of other peoples of the East. Not only the poets of the classics of Turkmen literature, among whom the work of Makhtumkuli Fraghi occupies a special place, but also the poet Saif Sara...